Justin Morrison
@jimorrison.bsky.social
Gardener. Builder. Weather Watcher. Leftist. Baseball fan. He/Him
Critical to Extremely Critical fire weather will be present in the Western portion of the southern plains over the next couple days, and Severe Weather will get under way in Oklahoma and North Texas tomorrow, before spreading across the South Tuesday and Wednesday.
March 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Critical to Extremely Critical fire weather will be present in the Western portion of the southern plains over the next couple days, and Severe Weather will get under way in Oklahoma and North Texas tomorrow, before spreading across the South Tuesday and Wednesday.
The SPC has upgraded the severe weather risk to Enhanced for tonight in Oklahoma and Texas, including OKC metro, based on an increase in significant tornado parameters in the modeling. This threat will exist between 2-6AM. Multiple to numerous tornadoes are expected across the region.
March 3, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The SPC has upgraded the severe weather risk to Enhanced for tonight in Oklahoma and Texas, including OKC metro, based on an increase in significant tornado parameters in the modeling. This threat will exist between 2-6AM. Multiple to numerous tornadoes are expected across the region.
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I'm going to dinner. I will try to have an updated piece out tomorrow afternoon. Then I'm taking the rest of the weekend off. I need to pace myself and function as a person while this clearly continues. Godspeed everyone.
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Notes on the Crises
Until Further Notice, Comprehensive coverage of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025
www.crisesnotes.com
February 8, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I'm going to dinner. I will try to have an updated piece out tomorrow afternoon. Then I'm taking the rest of the weekend off. I need to pace myself and function as a person while this clearly continues. Godspeed everyone.
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This will be all of America soon. The best thing the rest of the world could do for the next four years is to deny entry to Americans without proof of vaccination.
A measles outbreak is growing in a rural area of West Texas where vaccination rates are well below the recommended level.
Measles outbreak expands in West Texas around county with low vaccination rate | CNN
A measles outbreak is growing in a rural area of West Texas where vaccination rates are well below the recommended level.
www.cnn.com
February 8, 2025 at 2:56 AM
This will be all of America soon. The best thing the rest of the world could do for the next four years is to deny entry to Americans without proof of vaccination.
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ICYMI I have a piece out about this spending freeze business. What happened, why it happened and why it's a burgeoning constitutional crisis and the most dramatic moment in the constitutional history of Fiscal Policy in this country. Yes, that’s a big deal.
January 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM
ICYMI I have a piece out about this spending freeze business. What happened, why it happened and why it's a burgeoning constitutional crisis and the most dramatic moment in the constitutional history of Fiscal Policy in this country. Yes, that’s a big deal.
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I have not felt prepared to read this article today about the resignation of the Treasury's Fiscal Assistant Secretary (who was just acting Treasury Secretary) until like a half an hour ago. I finally did. Its terrifying. I'm terrified.
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January 31, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I have not felt prepared to read this article today about the resignation of the Treasury's Fiscal Assistant Secretary (who was just acting Treasury Secretary) until like a half an hour ago. I finally did. Its terrifying. I'm terrified.
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It appears that it was impossible to be too worried about a second Trump administration.
This is how banana republics work: “Interim leaders at the Justice Department have spent the past week drawing up lists of people whose work at the bureau has earned disfavor with Trump for a variety of reasons.” www.cnn.com/2025/01/31/p...
FBI agents who worked on January 6 and Trump investigations are expected to be fired Friday | CNN Politics
The Trump administration is set to expand a purge of career law enforcement officials, with dozens of FBI agents who investigated January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack and Trump-related investigations as...
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February 1, 2025 at 12:50 AM
It appears that it was impossible to be too worried about a second Trump administration.
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I'm going to be talking about all this with @mehdirhasan.bsky.social on @zeteo.com v soon. Stay tuned.
I appreciate all the people recommending the Shock Doctrine. I've been thinking about what makes Trump's use of these tactics a little different.
In recent decades, shock tactics were used mainly to rapidly impose neoliberal economic policies. But what Trump is doing goes way beyond that.
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In recent decades, shock tactics were used mainly to rapidly impose neoliberal economic policies. But what Trump is doing goes way beyond that.
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Chaos and confusion. Somebody read @naomiaklein.bsky.social The Shock Doctrine as a manual, it seems. Time for people to read it again for countermeasures also.
January 28, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I'm going to be talking about all this with @mehdirhasan.bsky.social on @zeteo.com v soon. Stay tuned.
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Good time to remind people what a journalist is/isn't. A journalist:
- has to do reporting of some kind (data, archival, source-based)
- has to fact-check that reporting
- is held to a higher legal standard than op-eds, essayists, commentators (generally can't share an opinion w/o documentation)
- has to do reporting of some kind (data, archival, source-based)
- has to fact-check that reporting
- is held to a higher legal standard than op-eds, essayists, commentators (generally can't share an opinion w/o documentation)
Made my first starter pack! These are the climate journalists I know and love and highly recommend following on BlueSky so far. Please tell me who I'm missing (and apologies in advance if I've missed you, I swear it's not intentional!)
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November 11, 2024 at 7:49 PM
Good time to remind people what a journalist is/isn't. A journalist:
- has to do reporting of some kind (data, archival, source-based)
- has to fact-check that reporting
- is held to a higher legal standard than op-eds, essayists, commentators (generally can't share an opinion w/o documentation)
- has to do reporting of some kind (data, archival, source-based)
- has to fact-check that reporting
- is held to a higher legal standard than op-eds, essayists, commentators (generally can't share an opinion w/o documentation)
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Anyone out there still denying that Israel is intentionally carrying out war crimes that easily pass easily the genocide bar? Watch this. And then, if you can, fight against what humanity there is in you to continue to deny it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPE6...
Investigating war crimes in Gaza I Al Jazeera Investigations
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
www.youtube.com
December 7, 2024 at 11:07 AM
Anyone out there still denying that Israel is intentionally carrying out war crimes that easily pass easily the genocide bar? Watch this. And then, if you can, fight against what humanity there is in you to continue to deny it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPE6...
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Another day another Israeli war crime: Israel hits Gaza hospital water tanks (they must have been... Hamas), kills 48 Palestinians in a day.
Amnesty Int calls genocide Israel's ‘brazenly, continuously and with total impunity … unleashed hell’ in Gaza
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Amnesty Int calls genocide Israel's ‘brazenly, continuously and with total impunity … unleashed hell’ in Gaza
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Amnesty International concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza
Amnesty International’s research has found sufficient basis to conclude that Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip.
www.amnesty.org
December 5, 2024 at 11:19 AM
Another day another Israeli war crime: Israel hits Gaza hospital water tanks (they must have been... Hamas), kills 48 Palestinians in a day.
Amnesty Int calls genocide Israel's ‘brazenly, continuously and with total impunity … unleashed hell’ in Gaza
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Amnesty Int calls genocide Israel's ‘brazenly, continuously and with total impunity … unleashed hell’ in Gaza
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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United CEO Andrew Witty gave an address to the company today (leaked to me), telling employees "we guard against...unnecessary care" and that "There are very few people in the history of the U. S. healthcare industry who had a bigger positive effect on American healthcare than Brian [Thompson]."
December 7, 2024 at 1:03 AM
United CEO Andrew Witty gave an address to the company today (leaked to me), telling employees "we guard against...unnecessary care" and that "There are very few people in the history of the U. S. healthcare industry who had a bigger positive effect on American healthcare than Brian [Thompson]."
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Washington Post article on slain CEO quotes an unnamed company staffer saying “he was known within the company for his focus on keeping premiums low” — claiming anonymity necessary to protect their job (lol).
Also claims with zero attribution that CEO “was well liked internally”
Also claims with zero attribution that CEO “was well liked internally”
December 7, 2024 at 5:53 AM
Washington Post article on slain CEO quotes an unnamed company staffer saying “he was known within the company for his focus on keeping premiums low” — claiming anonymity necessary to protect their job (lol).
Also claims with zero attribution that CEO “was well liked internally”
Also claims with zero attribution that CEO “was well liked internally”
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🚨 Israeli tanks have entered the Syrian town of Quneitra, near the occupied Golan, from the demilitarized zone, accompanied by shelling of nearby areas. This follows increased IOF deployment in the Golan yesterday, and the fall of Bashar Al-Assad’s regime today.
December 8, 2024 at 4:33 AM
🚨 Israeli tanks have entered the Syrian town of Quneitra, near the occupied Golan, from the demilitarized zone, accompanied by shelling of nearby areas. This follows increased IOF deployment in the Golan yesterday, and the fall of Bashar Al-Assad’s regime today.
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Bashar al-Assad reported to have fled Syria as rebels say they have captured Damascus
Bashar al-Assad reported to have fled Syria as rebels say they have captured Damascus
Celebrations on streets of Syrian cities as as Assad regime appears to have fallen
* Live updates: celebrations reported in Damascus as rebels claim capital
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is believed to have fled the country his family has ruled…
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2024 at 5:54 AM
Bashar al-Assad reported to have fled Syria as rebels say they have captured Damascus
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They’re also telling us they’re not covering the emergency hospital stay last month when my wife’s liver enzyme levels spiked and the doctor told us she needed close monitoring.
They said that because everything worked out, the stay was unnecessary.
Great system we got here.
They said that because everything worked out, the stay was unnecessary.
Great system we got here.
December 8, 2024 at 6:21 AM
They’re also telling us they’re not covering the emergency hospital stay last month when my wife’s liver enzyme levels spiked and the doctor told us she needed close monitoring.
They said that because everything worked out, the stay was unnecessary.
Great system we got here.
They said that because everything worked out, the stay was unnecessary.
Great system we got here.
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My insurance has consistently slow-walked my doc's pre-approval of a preventative med (I've taken for years) that helps me to live with less debilitating pain, meaning that I am now almost a month overdue and it has completely worn off. They do this EVERY TIME I get a new script for it.
UnitedHealthcare has now twice denied our doctor’s pre-approval request for the weekly ultrasounds my wife needs to monitor her high-risk pregnancy.
These insurance companies should not exist. We need single-payer.
These insurance companies should not exist. We need single-payer.
December 8, 2024 at 6:10 AM
My insurance has consistently slow-walked my doc's pre-approval of a preventative med (I've taken for years) that helps me to live with less debilitating pain, meaning that I am now almost a month overdue and it has completely worn off. They do this EVERY TIME I get a new script for it.
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Not seen in NYT's "what to know" about Pam Bondi: the only thing you need to know, that she fired prosecutors in her office who were investigating companies engaged in foreclosure fraud, after receiving thousands of dollars in donations from those companies.
November 22, 2024 at 11:14 AM
Not seen in NYT's "what to know" about Pam Bondi: the only thing you need to know, that she fired prosecutors in her office who were investigating companies engaged in foreclosure fraud, after receiving thousands of dollars in donations from those companies.
Couple looks at the bomb cyclone moving into the Pacific Northwest. Pressure is down to around 950mb. A similar storm occurred 3 years ago in October 2021. That storm bombed out to 942mb. Sounds like there's a good chance this one might exceed that.
November 20, 2024 at 1:10 AM
Couple looks at the bomb cyclone moving into the Pacific Northwest. Pressure is down to around 950mb. A similar storm occurred 3 years ago in October 2021. That storm bombed out to 942mb. Sounds like there's a good chance this one might exceed that.
Garage Jungle 2024-25 complete! 💚🌱🌵🪴
The frozen begins tomorrow. ❄️🧊🥶👎
The frozen begins tomorrow. ❄️🧊🥶👎
November 20, 2024 at 1:08 AM
Garage Jungle 2024-25 complete! 💚🌱🌵🪴
The frozen begins tomorrow. ❄️🧊🥶👎
The frozen begins tomorrow. ❄️🧊🥶👎
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Today, @carbonbrief.org has published the latest, and most comprehensive, update to our interactive map of extreme weather attribution.
The redesigned map now includes almost 750 extreme events and trends from more than 600 studies.
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The redesigned map now includes almost 750 extreme events and trends from more than 600 studies.
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Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world - Carbon Brief
Attribution studies calculate whether, and by how much, climate change affected the intensity, frequency or impact of extremes – Carbon Brief has mapped every published study on how climate change has...
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November 18, 2024 at 11:03 AM
Today, @carbonbrief.org has published the latest, and most comprehensive, update to our interactive map of extreme weather attribution.
The redesigned map now includes almost 750 extreme events and trends from more than 600 studies.
interactive.carbonbrief.org/attribution-...
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The redesigned map now includes almost 750 extreme events and trends from more than 600 studies.
interactive.carbonbrief.org/attribution-...
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You'll be shocked to hear I wrote a thing, and doubly shocked that it is not nice about Silicon Valley. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
Turns out the zombie apocalypse isn’t as fun as they said it would be – Rebecca Solnit on our dangerously disconnected world
A population numbed, dazed, present-but-not-present – had it happened overnight it would be a sci-fi horror movie. And if you looked up from your phone for long enough, you might notice it’s started a...
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2024 at 4:21 AM
You'll be shocked to hear I wrote a thing, and doubly shocked that it is not nice about Silicon Valley. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...